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# Pierre-Narcisse Guérin depicts the death of Marshal Lannes, wounded at Aspern
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- Published: 2021-04-01T07:11:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:02:26.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, People

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, The Death of Marshal Lannes, Duke of Montebello. We see Napoleon holding Lannes and pressing him to his chest. Tarle writes that Napoleon wept for the second and last time in his life when the dying Marshal Lannes lay in his arms: one of his closest friends and a rare man who was permitted to address the Emperor as «tu». Lannes was the marshal of the vanguard and all but irreplaceable, thanks to such martial gifts as the ability to hold the line of the front, impeccable diligence, intelligence, courage, passion and even ferocity. There is a view that the death of Marshal Lannes was one of the turning points of the Napoleonic wars. And his death was a very strange one: having spent a whole day at the front at Aspern without a single scratch, Jean Lannes sat down during a tour of the battlefield to mourn General Pouzet, who had just been killed by a stray bullet, and was at once struck down himself by a cannonball that shattered his legs; after the amputation gangrene set in, he came to himself, raved, tried to leap up and even to command troops, and a few days later quietly died